Wednesday, March 12, 1952 University Daily Kansan
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Writer Thought He Did Okay On Draft Test; Well,He Did-see us for your supplies
Bv MAX THOMPSON
The notices in recent issues of the Kansan about it being time to send in applications to take the Selective Service College Qualifications test reminds me of the first such test given at the University on May 26, 1951.
Like hundreds of other University men, I got an application blank from the registrar's office and sent it to the testing center in New Jersey. A few weeks later I got my permit card giving the date and place of the test.
There was a big-to-do about those exams. Some people called them draft dodgers tests, deferments for bookworms, etc.
The date selected for the exam happened to fall during final week, so a special day was set aside for the selective service exams. The tests were given in the Military Science building and as we entered the big hall upstairs a print of our left thumb was taken and we signed a little paper stating we had never taken the exam before.
The questions were numerous and rather tricky—similar to those given by an instructor on a shotgun. After answering all the questions and guessing at the ones we weren't sure of, we had to wait until all the students had finished.
A majority of the students finished the exam about 12:30 p.m. and grew impatient waiting for a few stragglers to finish. For diversion
County Received $370,662 In Aid
The work of the Red Cross in Lawrence's disastrous flood last summer was pointed out in a letter to University faculty and employees as part of its current fund-raising campaign.
Henry A. Shenk, associate professor of physical education and chairman of KU's Red Cross drive said that 646 families in Douglas county were given aid by the Red Cross in the amount of $370,662.76. In the entire midwestern flood area, the Red Cross expended 13 million dollars.
Mr. Shenk reminds donors that more than half of the contributions will stay in Douglas county for use by the local chapter.
Maurice Baker, research assistant in the Museum of Natural History, will read his paper "Population Changes of Greater Prairie Chickens in Kansas" at the North American Wildlife conference in Miami, Fla., March 17 to 19.
Research Assistant To Read Thesis At Wildlife Conference
The paper, a part of Mr. Baker's Ph.D. thesis, is a report of the characteristics and changes which occurred in the prairie chicken population in Kansas between 1949 and 1952. Mr. Baker said the conference will be attended by wildlife biologists and administrators from all over North America.
No Tau Sigma meeting tonight. Turn in tickets and money at gym office immediately.
Pio Tau Sigma Meeting
WHEN DOWN TOWN
the idle students began a rhythmic stamping of their feet. The man in charge of the exams quickly called for the students to "quit it ..." and so they waited dejectedly for the others to finish.
About a month later I made a visit to the local draft board to see what kind of a score I had made on the quiz. The clerk showed me a card which had a 72 stamped on it. At least I had passed it. About that same time I received a letter from the registrar which stated that I was in the upper one-fourth of my class.
Either one of those marks were supposed to make you eligible for deferment, and I felt pretty good. So one day I received a little brown card from the draft board. It read: "You have been classified in I-A by a three to 0 vote of the board."
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